EUGENE — Two of the top teams, led by two of the best coaches in the Big Ten will square off at Autzen Stadium when Dan Lanning and No. 3 Oregon host Curt Cignetti and No. 7 Indiana.

Each a former member of Nick Saban’s coaching staff, Lanning and Cignetti’s time in Tuscaloosa did not overlap but was nonetheless formative to each becoming head coaches, albeit by very different paths since.

As they each attempt to lead teams back to the playoff this season with new transfer quarterbacks, Lanning and Cignetti are garnering greater attention from swaths of the country that are less familiar with their journeys, both of which are remarkable in their own ways.

“That speaks to a guy that (people) want to coach with him,” Lanning said. “He’s won everywhere he’s been; that’s really apparent.

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